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The lecture and book expanded upon an article by Snow published in the New Statesman of 6 October 1956, also entitled "The Two Cultures". [4] Published in book form, Snow's lecture was widely read and discussed on both sides of the Atlantic, leading him to write a 1963 follow-up, The Two Cultures: And a Second Look: An Expanded Version of The ...
[3] [32] Subsequently, published as The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, the lecture argued that the breakdown of communication between the "two cultures" of modern society – the sciences and the humanities – was a major hindrance to solving the world's problems. In particular, Snow argues that the quality of education in the ...
Note how the preceding paragraph is directly related: in the Estonian president's remarks, he says Personally, I think much of the problem we face today represents the culmination of a problem diagnosed 55 years ago by C.P. Snow in his essay "The Two Cultures" Ping Thehumanities and Xxanthippe, Schazjmd (talk) 21:49, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
1959 C. P. Snow The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution; 1960 Edgar Wind Classicism; 1961 Lord Radcliffe Censors; 1962 Robert Hall Planning; 1963 Douglas William Logan The Years of Challenge; 1964 Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson The oldest Irish tradition - a window on the early Iron Age; 1965 Gavin de Beer Genetics and prehistory
Leavis vigorously attacked Snow's suggestion, from a 1959 lecture and book by C. P. Snow (see The Two Cultures), that practitioners of the scientific and humanistic disciplines should have some significant understanding of each other, and that a lack of knowledge of 20th century physics was comparable to an ignorance of Shakespeare. [22]
In anthropology, high-context and low-context cultures are ends of a continuum of how explicit the messages exchanged in a culture are and how important the context is in communication. The distinction between cultures with high and low contexts is intended to draw attention to variations in both spoken and non-spoken forms of communication. [1]
Snow’s influence is particularly deep in two areas of the discipline: social movements and social inequality. Perhaps Snow’s single greatest scholarly achievement is the creation of the “framing perspective” on social movements, which focuses on the negotiable and emergent meanings of social-movement issues, tactics, and participants.
George Passant is a solicitor in a small English town, whose idealism and eccentricity lead him to accumulate a group of young followers in a mentor-like capacity. Narrated by Lewis Eliot, the novel has the more general background of Eliot's rising career and the changes in English society through the 20th century.